Bug#484359: [frontend/lintian] Urgencies are case-sensitive
"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.49
>
> Hi,
>
> During a discussion on #debian-release, it was confirmed that britney
> treats urgencies as case-sensitive - i.e. high != HIGH. lintian's check
> for valid urgencies, conversely, is case-insensitive.
>
> The check should be modified to be case-sensitive. As "HIGH" is not a
> valid urgency as far as britney is concerned, a package uploaded with
> such an urgency will be treated as having the default urgency value,
> which is currently "low".
Policy says britney is wrong, so this is either a bug in britney (my
inclination) or a bug in both lintian and Policy.
See Policy 5.16.17.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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